Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:24:49 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness |
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On Fri, 2004-06-18 13:17:31 -0400, Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie> wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.60.0406181316270.3231@fogarty.jakma.org>: > On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > >For what I guess, those should better be native Indian speakers... > > Hmm, my indian colleagues speak perfect english. Why make this > comment at all btw...
>From my current view, there's a lot of work being done in and around India. I think that's a great thing for an upcoming country. However the sad thing is that those hackers seem to work behind quite closed doors (or little internet access). I commonly see this situation:
- Nobody (except their bosses) know about their work. It's nowhere announced, published or discusses. - They just work, but sometimes miss to *think* about their work. Why should anybody work on a 2.4.16 codebase if there's 2.4.26 available? Heck, they're missing > 2 years of development and bug fixes! - They often ask stupid/bogus questions in such a way that I think they were poorly prepared by whomever is paying for the work to do their job. I fear that problems are solved (on a regular basis) by trial-and-error (and putting 20 people to solve a single problem) than by first discussing it.
While looking at the questions, my thoughts are typically:
- They could do a *really* good job iff they were better integrated into LKML and other mailing lists. They need to read, and they need ask. Starting hacking with no well-designed idea for a solution is the poorest design of problem solving I've ever seen. - A lot of (valueable) work is being done, but LKML and the vanialla tree will typically never ever see it. It's done, put into some embedded device, sold, and never ever touched again.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not against Indian people (in fact, I do have quite some email contacts on regular basis to some eg. Bangladeshi people). I'm just a little sad about the whole lot of effort that's lost IMHO on a regular basis, *and* that those guys over there get so little help (because they seem to not have a steady internet uplink for their use).
MfG, JBG
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